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Originally Posted by onemanempire
Anyway,
I propose a thought experiment to this conundrum.
Upon waking up, have someone who is already firing on all cylinders, and fully awake, time you counting to one minute, silently, to yourself.
So, you sit there, with your eyes shut, and count to 60 as accurately as you can. When you think one minute is up say stop, so the person with the stopwatch timing you can record the data.
Do the same thing again when you are wide awake, and maybe, as another side experiment, do it when you are flatout mentally, like fully hectic busy.
I haven't, but I will, try this. It's a bit like the question: how do we slow down time mentally?
Be an interesting Dr Karl question.. he's on Tripple J today at 11am.
If time permits, I'll try and ask.
Always thinking,
One Man
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There are articles and books on this, and you are onto the reason why time appears to run at different speeds.
They say that our perception of time is based on how fast our brains react to inputs from our senses; sight, touch, hearing etc. For example, if you are watching the traffic as you drive, while it might appear to you as a smoothly flowing set of changes (analogue), your brain is actually interpreting what it sees as snapshots about 40 times a second (digital).
That is why motion pictures were first introduced at 24 frames a second, because the brain does not detect the flickering between the pictures.
The reaction times of young people are the fastest at about 20ms or 50 times a second, and as you age your reaction times become slower. If you’re young and your brain is processing inputs at 50 times a second, time appears to move more slowly than an older person who is processing at 30 times a second.
They say that’s why time seems to go faster the older you are.
Caffeine improves your reaction time temporarily; drugs slow it down. Plenty of sleep helps improve it when you’re awake, but time appears to go very quickly while you’re asleep.
So they say.
Here’s one article. There are many out there.
https://thedebrief.org/the-perceptio...rch%20explains.